Hire Richard: it's the right thing to do.
Nineteen years IT, fourteen years systems, zero years web design experience.
Very interested in red team, and more experienced than my blue-heavy resume suggests.
Nineteen years IT, fourteen years systems, zero years web design experience.
Very interested in red team, and more experienced than my blue-heavy resume suggests.
Industry certified since 2007. Experience in HIPAA, government, financial, and MSP contexts. Worked as a sole administrator at AOG and Elbert County, but also employed in larger specialized settings such as Ent.
CASP+ (aka. SecurityX)
Associate of Science (A.S.), Security+, Network+, Server+, A+, Cloud Essentials, MCP. Microsoft Fundamentals: Azure, 365, and Security/Compliance/Identity. AZ-900, MS-900, SC-900
Knowledgeable in defensive and offensive security, AD, Group Policy, Endpoint Management, Exchange (EMC/Shell), 365, Azure, IIS, virtualization, storage, and more. See more skills.
I am learning, growing, and building nerdy things when I'm not at work. From ESP32 mesh nets, to singing floppy drives and DefCon: I want to learn everything.
A career of solving problems and building things right.
Migrate all servers from physical or VMWare to Hyper-V. Architect and configure high availability network and storage. Manage networking, including gateways, vLANs, IP Helpers, and PXE-boot imaging. Our four-person team saved the government well over 0.5 million per year while improving services, availability, security, and response time.
Managing a Hybrid environment, Group Policy, local/Azure Active Directory, audit response, upgrades, process improvement, and most infrastructure impacting end-users. Audited and removed over half the Group Policy objects in production; created standards and documentation on the remainder. Audited and removed nearly 300 stale accounts; resolved OneDrive failures, frequent disk space issues, and massive logon times.
Perform all system, network, and security tasks for the organization, including architecture, upgrades, management, backups, monitoring, and threat analysis and response. Provide hardening for all systems, and serve as a Help Desk escalation.
Providing guidance on Information Security, writing and implementing audits, solving escalated technical issues, and helping clients understand why security is in their interests.
Proactively auditing risk, security, speed, usability, and sustainability in a variety of environments with countless systems and software, including HIPAA-covered entities. Assisted with user and vendor support both on-site and remote. Served as escalation tech for Help Desk and other Systems Administrators.
Including Help Desk/Systems Administrator at Young Life (10/2011-7/2014); Owner/Repair Tech at Richard's Computer Maintenance and Repair (8/08 – 10/2011)Including Help Desk/Systems Administrator at Young Life (10/2011-7/2014); Owner/Repair Tech at Richard's Computer Maintenance and Repair (8/08 – 10/2011)
Highlights from my most recent role.
Don't just take my word for it.
Richard's passion for not only correcting the issue, but educating our staff in simplified terms throughout the process, enabled us to fix future problems. You will receive a self-driven, passionate, and punctual individual who enriches a positive environment for those around him.
Richard is an asset to any organization. As our lead security analyst, he provided a sense of comfort among our clients by delivering full reports on network, hardware, and software exploits, along with remediation steps. His processes allowed us to instruct clients on prevention. We were fortunate to have Richard and welcome his knowledge to this day.
Richard rapidly responds to technical issues, is exceptionally thorough with solutions for all involved parties, and listens intently.
Richard is a phenomenal IT professional. He's not only highly skilled, but goes the extra mile to anticipate and explain; even a non-IT human can understand. Seriously: hire him. And don't judge him by his dangerous sandwich theories.
